Top 1200 Drifting Off Quotes & Sayings

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

I think the one thing about the Zoom calls is unlike being in a room with people where you can look away or drift off, I feel like with Zoom, everyone's face is just dead center, head on, there is no drifting. It takes a lot of energy from me.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his desk at work, or during a meeting, or drifting off to sleep, or standing in the mornings under the shower. They are scenes he has carried within him, buried but intact, scenes he has never thought about or had reason to conjure up until now.

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting in, and that's kind of a bit disconcerting.

I particularly remember the smell of burgers and bratwurst drifting across Cottbus Velodrome in Germany.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

It is disappointing to find that music in Malayalam cinema is drifting away from its strong melody-base.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.

To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

I've been working very hard off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway and doing little films and really sweating my butt off in tiny little black boxes.

Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don't read books. This I find unbearable.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.

Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night.

The idea for a book usually bubbles up from my sub-conscious when I am drifting off to sleep. Each one has started as a line or two that I've heard in my head. As a writer, you have to leave space to listen for words. That means finding time to be quiet and listen for that still, small voice.

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.

Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.